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Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film

Michael Boyce Gillespie

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In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not...

FX Photo Studio HD

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FX Photo Studio is a creative powerhouse for digital photographers on iPad. FX Photo Studio HD is...

Poly Cam - 80‘s Retro Style

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POLY－Engraved your memory by simply press the shutter. Now, you can also take a photo with...

Erika (17788 KP) rated Queen of the Damned (2002) in Movies

Jul 26, 2020 (Updated Jul 26, 2020)

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ummmmm WHAT?

Ok so I watched this a few days after rewatching Interview with a Vampire. I had seen it before, but remembered very little.
This movie was a hack job and sought to combine the Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned into a movie under 2 hours. It's a poor adaption, and that's all I'm going to say about that.
Stuart Townsend wasn't a bad Lestat overall. Of course, he didn't look like him at all, and his backstory was... again, this was a hack-job. There were numerous plot holes and it just ends... It's strange.
Aaliyah was alright, and I think it suffered because she passed just after principle photography. I'm sure with re-shoots, this film may have been better. RIP Aaliyah.
The best part of this entire film was the soundtrack, written by some dudes from KORN. It was sufficiently moody, and honestly, I wouldn't mind if they scores/wrote the music for the new series. The music is the only reason I rated this as high as I did.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) in Movies

May 25, 2020

Playful, technically impressive and possibly very influential wildlife documentary. Scientist Nils Hellstrom, PhD (Doctor of Philosophy), MS (Master of Science), and WF (Wholly Fictitious), expresses his fears for the future of the human race, believing we are likely to be outcompeted by insects in every respect. Startling and occasionally grisly clips showing the lives of insects and other arthropods illustrate his thesis in great detail.

Well, Hellstrom (or more accurately writer David Seltzer, who went on to script The Omen twice) isn't a great biologist (he refers to insects as a species rather than a class), but the photography in the film is great and Lawrence Pressman's well-judged performance adds a lot to the impression the film makes: it's tongue in cheek, but still thought-provoking. As a gimmick to make people watch a wildlife documentary, it's an interesting one; you can sense echoes of this film's innovative use of music and narrative to add drama in many much more respectable nature documentaries (most of David Attenborough's blockbuster series, for instance). An oddity, but a good one.